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Microsoft Teams Demo

Published by Simon Angling on March 19, 2020

All this talk about working remotely! If you haven’t seen Microsoft Teams in action you can experience an interactive demo at https://teamsdemo.office.com. In this demo, you’ll first get a guided tour of Teams to understand the app and learn about key features. You’ll then try out some real actions and…

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COVID-19 Response Plan Templates and Resources

Published by Simon Angling on March 19, 2020

I was contacted yesterday by Info-Tech offering access to various research, tools and templates which can help IT teams with their COVID-19 response plans through their new COVID-19 Resource Center. There is a wealth of resources there, but for example, these are some of the resources I’ve been looking at this…

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Microsoft Teams free to enable remote working

Published by Simon Angling on March 18, 2020

I’m sure most people who work in IT are aware that Microsoft, in the light of the current COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis, have offered Teams for free for 6 months. If you already use Office 365 you will already have access to Microsoft Teams but may not be aware of it.…

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Open Source Virtual Summit

Published by Simon Angling on March 17, 2020

Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 09:00 AM – 03:30 PM (PDT) Just in case you have missed the announcement, tonight (or this afternoon depending on your time zone) is the free Open Source Virtual Summit by Microsoft Azure. Key highlights of the event: Keynote by GitHub VP: Find out what it takes to…

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Microsoft Bookings for 0365 Enterprise Subscriptions

Published by Simon Angling on March 10, 2020

I found myself looking at Microsoft Booking the other day. If you are not familiar with Microsoft Bookings, its an simple booking engine designed for small businesses. Customers can create a booking through a web page specifying the time and service required, receive a confirmation email and calendar invitation, and…

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Where Did My Space Go?

Where Did My Space Go?

Published by Simon Angling on March 9, 2020

My favourite tool to answer this question and give insight into what is taking up hard drive space has been WinDirStat for a number of years now. Based upon the discontinued KDirStat for KDE3 it scans the entire drive and presents the findings in a number of ways. A directory…

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Unified threat detection with Microsoft Threat Protection

Unified threat detection with Microsoft Threat Protection

Published by Simon Angling on February 12, 2020

I love the security tools that come with the M365 and O365 E5 plans but I’ve always felt there were too many separate, and largely unintegrated, tools. For this reason, I was very excited when Azure Sentinel came along as Microsoft’s cloud SIEM as it can consume and analyse data…

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Increasing upload_max_size in php.ini with Azure Web Apps

Published by Simon Angling on February 11, 2020

A small puzzle for the end of last week with an Azure web app running PHP. The default upload_max_filesize for PHP on Azure Web Apps is 8,192KB and there was a need to increase it. I’ve done this 100s of times with PHP running on Apache – but wasn’t sure…

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Have Cortana Schedule your Meetings

Have Cortana Schedule your Meetings

Published by Simon Angling on February 10, 2020

One of my favourite Microsoft tools, that I find myself using more and more, is Scheduler which is currently in preview. Previously known simply as Calendar.help, Scheduler is a personal digital assistant (Cortana) that can arrange meetings on your behalf that works with Office 365, Outlook.com, or Google calendar. To…

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